What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer position at Waypoint Human Capital?
Position Title: Software Engineer
Position Type: Full-time on-site (no remote or hybrid option)
Position Location: Tysons / Reston / Chantilly area
Some travel required (likely 1–3 international trips per year, 1 weeks each)
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI
Waypoint’s client is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join their team! In this role you will get to design, develop, and support mission-critical Point-of-Entry systems around the world.
What You'll Be Doing:
Position Type: Full-time on-site (no remote or hybrid option)
Position Location: Tysons / Reston / Chantilly area
Some travel required (likely 1–3 international trips per year, 1 weeks each)
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI
Waypoint’s client is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join their team! In this role you will get to design, develop, and support mission-critical Point-of-Entry systems around the world.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Design and architect system enhancements and expansions using model-based design principles
- Consider and incorporate reliability, availability, and maintainability concepts into system designs
- Plan and support execution of global system upgrades while maximizing uptime
- Collaborate with program leadership to prioritize work, form a development schedule, and ensure on-time delivery of features
- Work within a team to develop software that supports Point of Entry sites worldwide
- Develop and optimize software development processes to maximize customer mission success
- Rapidly troubleshoot and correct software discrepancies to maximize system availability
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Appropriate experience in Software Engineering and/or Development
- Demonstrated experience with Java, Python, node.js, JavaScript, HTML
- Experience designing and developing client/server architectures
- Understanding of data transport concepts
- Experience analyzing system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls
- Experience developing applications using a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline
- Experience performing integration with third-party APIs
- Experience integrating with peripheral devices
- Previous work with Atlassian Jira and Confluence products
- Experience conducting multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems.